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If classic horror is identified by any one element, then it is by the actors and actresses who thrilled audiences with their menacing and terrifying portrayals. But for every thespian immortalized in the spotlight, there is a legion of others ...

Episode VI: Science’s Deadliest Accident We explore the blending between science fiction and horror, from the giant ants of THEM to the drooling monster of ALIEN. If you liked this podcast, please consider donating to us and becoming one of ...

There’s more than enough room for human-dog partnerships across Jim Henson’s oeuvre, but it’s true. For a while there I was convinced the narrators of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants were Fraggle Rock’s Doc and Sprocket. Doc wore glasses and ...

United States/Italian coproduction Voice from the Stone (2017) is absolutely dazzling to the eye, with exterior scenes drenched in vibrant fall colors, and interior set designs of a weathered mansion meticulously adorned. This Gothic, psychological, supernatural tale is not as strong ...

We are giving away 15 copies of the new KING OF HORROR COLLECTION on Blu-ray™! That’s 4 Stephen King films in one terrifying collection! To enter, just sign up for our Weekly Newsletter, or purchase any print issue of Diabolique ...

A Year In The Country is an extraordinary multimedia project that incorporates a musical collective, record label, website, and physical artwork. It describes its raison d’etre thusly: “It is a wandering amongst work that takes inspiration from the hidden and ...

Tobe Hooper made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) with one specific intension in mind – to hate us and ruthlessly attack us, both psychologically and emotionally. The film’s sole intention is to drive us mad with its insane sights ...

Cut Shoot Kill (2017), written and directed by Michael Walker, fuses elements of gore, comedy and self-referential narrative to comment upon the production and reception of independent genre film. It concerns an ambitious actress, Serena (Alexandra Socha), who finds that ...

In this ongoing series, I’ll be looking at the Young Adult genre fiction books that impacted my youth. I’m starting with the works of novelist Lois Duncan. Ransom (originally titled Five Were Missing), her first YA genre novel, was published ...

Depending on viewer expectations, The Cannibal Man may be the most tediously pretentious film included among the so-called “Video Nasties,” or it could be the most pleasantly surprising. Originally titled La semana del asesino, translated as Week of the Killer, ...